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After a couple of drinks and some polite skid - talking I asked the Hugheses if they could tell me where Mr John Cowper Powys the author might live . They had never heard speak of such a person in the neighbourhood .
After a couple of drinks and some polite skid - talking I asked the Hugheses if they could tell me where Mr John Cowper Powys the author might live . They had never heard speak of such a person in the neighbourhood .
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He threw away the stump of his cheroot , and I asked him what had happened to this lady , and whether she had returned to the town . " No - never , " he said . " I never saw her again . Shortly after returning to Warsaw she wrote me a ...
He threw away the stump of his cheroot , and I asked him what had happened to this lady , and whether she had returned to the town . " No - never , " he said . " I never saw her again . Shortly after returning to Warsaw she wrote me a ...
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When she brought my change she suddenly asked , " You like icon ? " The question was so unexpected that it took me off balance , and I stumbled into an affirmative , not thinking that it might commit me . " Come , " she said abruptly ...
When she brought my change she suddenly asked , " You like icon ? " The question was so unexpected that it took me off balance , and I stumbled into an affirmative , not thinking that it might commit me . " Come , " she said abruptly ...
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MY FIRST WINNER BY JOHN WELCOME | 43 |
A DISH OF CLAMS BY JOHN WELMAN | 70 |
PORTRAIT IN SHADOW BY HOWARD | 161 |
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